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Aspekty kulturowe, kompozycyjne i percepcyjne w opracowaniach dotyczących identyfikacji charakteru krajobrazu na poziomie lokalnym

Author(s): Anna Gałecka-Drozda,Magdalena Szczepańska,Agnieszka Wilkaniec,Ewa de Mezer / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2018

The obligation to prepare landscape audits registered in the Landscape Act is the result of the implementation of the European Landscape Convention. Limiting the audit to the regional scale (mesoregions) is not conducive to the identification of the local landscape specificity, especially with regard to its cultural, compositional and perceptual aspects. If landscape audits are to be an effective tool for protection of landscape in spatial planning, it is necessary also to conduct them for lower-order units (microregions). Such strategy would be consistent with the scale of local planning and take into account the perspective of a human – the observer. The cultural, compositional and perceptual aspects of landscape greatly affect the sense of belonging to a place and its social acceptance. These elements should constitute the basis for its proper protection and development at the local level, especially in relation to the landscape not considered as “priority”, but to the “ordinary”, “everyday” landscape. The article is an overview of examples of application of landscape architecture methods that take into account the local specificity of space and can be included in local planning.

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Assessing the Effect of Women-Only Parks in Promoting Women's Quality of Life in Iran

Author(s): Mehrnaz Molavi,Farshd Hoseini / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2021

The current research investigates the role of women-only parks in improving the quality of women's life, in Iran. The impact of specific women-only parks on the physical and mental health of women, in Muslim countries is undeniable, where women are confronted with limitations. The main objective of this study was to examine the mutual relationship between environmental quality indicators and women's quality of life indicators by assessing the impact of women-only parks on women's health. The current research was conducted using the descriptive-analytical method and employing descriptive and inferential statistics. To achieve the objectives of the study, 150 women (in different ages) as users in the women-only park in district 15 of Tehran, were asked some questions through a questionnaire. The parametric test and regression analysis were applied to analyze the results. The results reveal that women-only parks have affected women’s quality of life in the discussed society with a coefficient of 16.6 percent. In these parks, they feel higher levels of security and freedom for sports activities and social interactions. However are should be taken not to be gender-based in all areas of women's lives, and women should not be considered as minorities in need of support.

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ASSESSMENT OF THE CONDITIONS OF EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES IN SELECTED LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS IN KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA

Author(s): Cyril Kanayochuku Ezeamaka,Bala Dogo,Akinwumi Olumide Oluwole,Taiye Oluwafemi Adewuyi,Joel Ajibuah,Mwanret Gideon Daful,Sadiq Queen / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

This paper was aimed at examining the conditions of educational facilities in public schools in selected Local Government Areas in Kaduna State, Nigeria. Physical inventories were carried out using the Educational Facilities Assessment Form (EFAF). Multistage sampling technique was used to select 9 Local Government Areas (LGAs). Data were analyzed using Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) 4.10 and Spearman Rank Correlation. The findings revealed that 88% of the schools do not have water supply while 22% have no roof, and 11.4% have power supply. It discovered that 32.9% of the schools were mud buildings while 4.2 % has no structure and less than 24 % has toilet facilities. Kaduna South LGA has the highest score (2.1) in the conditions of water facilities while Kajuru and Birnin Gwari LGAs have the lowest. Lere LGA has the least condition (1.1) of toilet facilities while Kaduna South LGA has the best (1.9). For conditions of building facilities, Zaria LGA was first followed by Kaduna South and Jemaá LGA. There was no significant relationship between public school and population of the LGAs, given that the calculated t-value (-0.222) was less than the critical t-value of (0.267). The GWR revealed a significant association between age of schools and the conditions of educational facilities at 0.05 significance level. The paper concluded that the conditions of educational facilities are not in disarray and properly maintained due to poor funding thus, requires urgent action. It therefore, recommends the implication of the UNESCO’s benchmark of demands 26% annual budget and 6% of the gross domestic product be invested in education.

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Atikamekw and Euro-Canadian Territorialities Around the Saint-Maurice River (1850–1930)

Author(s): Stéphane Castonguay,Hubert Samson / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2021

This essay focuses on the processes of territorialization, deterritorialization and reterritorialization through which Euro-Canadian society extended its control along the valley of the St. Maurice River between 1850 and 1930. That territory had been settled by the Atikamekw people where they had established their hunting and fishing grounds for centuries. However, the Atikamekw people were confronted by environmental and technological transformations around the St. Maurice River with the implementation of sociotechnical systems during that time period, as two successive phases of industrialization based on specific water use brought along a proliferation of urban centers and the arrival of the large-scale industry. This was particularly the case when the proliferation of hydroelectric dams along the St. Maurice River and its tributaries followed the construction of fluvial infrastructure to facilitate the floating of wood pulp harvested in the upper basin of the river. Not only did the technical activities surrounding the construction of hydroelectric facilities materially transform the St. Maurice River watershed, they also allowed a symbolic appropriation of the land by the production of maps and surveys that ‘erased’ the presence of the Atikamekw. Physical and symbolic boundaries resulting from these new forms of organization and configuration of the territory restricted the spatial practices and representations of the Atikamekw. Logging confined these people within isolated enclaves (the so-called “Indian reserves”), while dams bypassed their networks of exchange and communication. The aim of this essay is to understand the conflicts between the territorialities of the Atikamekw and that of the Euro-Canadians by focusing on the place of water uses within the geographical imaginations and the land use patterns of these populations.

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Atmosfera hipermarketu społecznego. Architektura w powieściach Michela Houellebecqa

Author(s): Andrzej Leśniak / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2019

The article concerns the use of architecture in the novels of Michel Houellebecq. The aim of the article is to analyse the role played by the architectural and urbanistic motifs in Map and Territory and What-ever – two of the most important of the writer’s novels. According to the author of the article those motifs are not merely the background of the story or ideas presented in the novels, but they play an active role in creat-ing the most vital elements of the works’ atmosphere: the feeling of exhaustion and mischievousness of mod-ernist ideals and the mood of civilisational decay.

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ATTRACTIVE VALENCES AND METHODS TO VALUE THE CULTURAL BACKGROUND IN THE MOŢILOR LAND

Author(s): CRISTINA ELENA GAIDEI / Language(s): English / Issue: 20/2020

The cultural landscape resulting from anthropogenic factors, hasconsiderably attractive valences that need to be valued in order to achieve durabledevelopment. In this case study an evaluation of the landscape potential is done, from whicha specific and cultural typo is made of the cultural background, that can be valued in orderto preserve and continue the geographical and cultural identity of the people from theMoţilor Land. The study has been made with considerable bibliographic documentationrepresenting specialty literature, studies published in national and international magazines,while using quality and description methods such as analysis, synthesis, comparisons, themethod of identifying elements from traditional cultural landscape. The typo of the culturallandscape, having its genetic criteria at heart, can detect the following five main distinct andspecific categories, with real attractive valences: the cultural background linked to activitiesof housekeeping and living; the cultural landscape of production; the industrial landscape;the sacred and historic landscape; the touristic and recreation landscape. From theperspective of vulnerability, three types of landscape emerge: durable, stable and critical orvulnerable. These types of cultural landscape create the premises for regional development,in the context of economical and demographic decline, by creating diverse kinds of tourism.Thus, valuing the cultural landscape, is imposed as an opportunity for economicaldevelopment, conserving the identity and authenticity of the Moţilor Land, with clearstrategies, of implementation of factorsthat are regional and local, in line with internationaltrends.

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AUS DER WELT DER SÜDSLAWEN. Politisches, Historisches, Sozialistisches, nebst zwei Südslawienfahrten und Nachdichtungen südslawischer Lyrik

Author(s): Carl Max Ludwig Hermann Wendel / Language(s): German

published by: J. H.W.DIETZ NACHFOLGER, BERLIN //When Friedrich FG Kleinwächter says in his far too little read, very informative book “The Downfall of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy” that Europe knew more about Japan and India than about the South Slavic countries of the Habsburg Empire, the South-Slavic world still today is not in the bright midday light of being known. // In Germany, too, there is often an almost encyclopedic ignorance about the southern Slavs, although they come across our tribal territory on a broad front and one day they will also be our border neighbors in the state; Gone are the days when a Jakob Grimm, an Alexander v. Humboldt, a Leopold v. Ranke were eager to gain an understanding of South Slavic matters. // This regrettable fact - more regrettable for us than for the southern Slavs - justifies the summary and publication of treatises which, whether they have been in "Society" or "Wage", Viennese, workers' Newspaper ”,“ Frankfurter Zeitung ”or“ Prager Presse ”have appeared, are based on knowledge of the subject, strive to penetrate the subject matter and are carried by the will to objectivity. (the author)

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Avaliku ruumi mõiste areng ja tähendusväljad

Author(s): Antti Roose,Helen Sooväli-Sepping,Anni Müüripeal / Language(s): Estonian / Issue: 8-9/2020

Over the last five years, the Estonian society has begun to pay more attention to the environment we live, work and relax in. The use of the concept of ‘space’ and its association with the word ‘public’ is a practical problem on the way to a common understanding of space and its use. The ambiguity of the concept of space must be taken into account, both in everyday language and in scientific language. The concept of ‘public space’ is a rapidly developing concept in various fields in the Estonian language, yet in today’s legislation this is not legally covered. There is no well-established definition of ‘public space’ in Estonia. In mapping the use of ‘public space’, this article is confined to geographical sciences, urbanism and architecture. We cover the concept of ‘public space’ in the spatial sciences and discuss its social significance, analysing the semantic fields of the term and describing the contexts of its use. The article does not claim to invent a grand narrative of ‘public space’, but rather draws attention to the diversity and richness of the concept in academic discourse in general and in the Estonian context in particular. These ambiguities open up the possibility of innovating the concept and creatively using it in practice.

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AКТУЕЛНИ ДЕМOГРAФСКИ ПРOБЛЕМИ У НAСЕЉИМA ЧAЧAНСКЕ OПШТИНЕ

Author(s): Svetislav Lj. Marković,V. Ilija Popović / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 1/2007

While villages have the problem of migrations, Cacak, as the centre of the municipality, has completely different problems concerning the demographic development. Primarily, there is a great influx of people who should be provided with optimal conditions for life, such as: education, health care, employment, flats, entertainment recreation and other. If this influx continues, and now more than 62% of the local population is concentrated in the town, it will cause great problems to Cacak as the centre of the municipality. On the basis of the surveys and authors’ research, the problems of the demographic development of Cacak municipality in the last four decades of the 20th century and at the beginning of the new millennium have been shown. We have given the fluctuations in the number of people and households in 58 settlements of Cacak municipality in the period from 1948. to 2002. Then, we have shown the natural movement of the local population through the birth rate, death rate and population growth rate, which has been negative in the last decade and a half. Finally, sexual, age, ethnical, educational and economic structures of the population have been analysed.

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Barbora Půtová. Antropologie turismu. Praha: Karolinum, 2019

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Barbora Půtová. Antropologie turismu. Praha: Karolinum, 2019

Author(s): Vladimir Penchev / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2021

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Bariery w przemieszczaniu się osób dorosłych na obszarach wykluczonych transportowo – przykład rejonu Komańczy

Author(s): Ariel Ciechański / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 5/2020

At the end of June 2017, in the poviats served by the Sanok and Brzozów branches of Arriva Bus Transport Polska (formerly PKS Brzozów and PKS Sanok), an important carrier serving the area of several poviats withdrew unprecedentedly its services. Unlike many other former PKS enterprises that were being closed down, it still had a dominant, and even monopolistic, position on the market. As part of a broader study on the issue of transport based social exclusion, changes in the collective public transport network in the studied area, were identified. This was used to indicate the areas most exposed to this unfavorable process. One of such administrative division units is the Komańcza commune. Therefore, an additional study was conducted on the current transport problems of adults. It showed that they did not use public transport, and many were forced to buy a car due to insufficient offer of rail and bus operators.

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Bevezető a Fordulat 29. számához

Author(s): Zsófia Ádám,Laura Bozsik,Virág Buka,Alexandra Czeglédi,Mátyás Domschitz,Lilla Eredics,Eszter Horváth,Sára Lafferton,Melinda Mihály,Kristóf Nagy,András Papp,Annajuli Rosenfeld,Zoltán Sidó,Borbála Ruff / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 29/2021

Introduction to the special issue on food sovereignty

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Bezdomność w Łodzi

Author(s): Inga B. Kuźma,Danuta Majdańska,Witold Janiszek,Katarzyna Zytke,Paweł Ciołkowski,Antoni Naglik,Joanna Paliwoda,Bożena Antoniak,Marek Marusik,Marta Krysiak,Anna Janiszewska,Rafał Rouba,Justyna Krakus,Joanna Mietlińska,Katarzyna Kikosicka,Ewa Klima,Edyta Pietrzak,Sylwana Borszyńska,Łucja Lange / Language(s): Polish

Książka "Bezdomność w Łodzi" jest w przeważającej mierze efektem konferencji pod tym samym tytułem, która odbyła się w tymże mieście w lutym 2016 roku za sprawą Łódzkiego Partnerstwa Pomocy w sytuacji Wykluczenia i Bezdomności. Składają się na nią teksty prezentowane podczas konferencji oraz kilka innych. Dobrze się stało, że książka nie odcina się od tego spotkania, jak to nieraz bywa z "tomami pokonferencyjnymi". Owszem, w różnoraki sposób do niej nawiązuje. We wstępie jest zamieszczony program konferencji, są też zdjęcia z obrad. W ten sposób redaktorkom publikacji udało się zachować coś z dialogu, który się toczył przecież tamtej zimy na Uniwersytecie Łódzkim. [...] Przedstawiony materiał [...] o bezdomności w Łodzi jest bardzo wartościowy. [z recenzji dr hab. Grzegorza Pełczyńskiego, prof. Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego]

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Bike-sharing system in Poznan – what will Web API data tell us?

Author(s): Michał Dzięcielski,Adam Radzimski,Marcin Woźniak / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2020

Bike-sharing systems, also known as public bicycles, are among the most dynamically developing mobility solutions in contemporary cities. In the past decade, numerous Polish cities hoping to increase the modal share of cycling have also adopted bike-sharing. Such systems continuously register user movements through installed sensors. The resulting database allows a highly detailed representation of this segment of urban mobility. This article illustrates how a database accessed via a Web API (Web Application Programming Interface) could be used to investigate the spatial distribution of trips, using the case study of Poznań, the fifth-largest city in Poland. Using geographical information systems, we identify the hot spots of bike-sharing as well as areas with low usage. The research procedure outlined in the paper provides knowledge that allows better responding to users’ needs.

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Biophilic urbanism and NBS - conceptual approach and critical case study on the process of implementing NBS specific to the proGIreg project

Author(s): Codrut Papina / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Based on the proGIreg case study, the potential use of neighbourhood-based nature-based solutions for urban regeneration is presented. The classification of the specific solutions of the project (compared to other classifications) will be presented, together with the critical conclusions on why NBS are relevant for the emerging new concept/approach of Biophilic Urbanism. One of the results of the applied research project is the Replication Toolkit - which aims to facilitate the implementation of Nature-based solutions for other cities. The Replication Toolkit contains a set of recommendations for the strategic component of urban regeneration of post-industrial neighbour-hoods, but also for the operational component of concrete implementation of solutions.

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Bona Sforza, tra Polonia, Napoli e Bari. Nel gioco delle grandi potenze europee del Cinquecento

Author(s): Angelantonio Spagnoletti / Language(s): Italian / Issue: 1/2020

The story of Bona Sforza is examined, in this essay, in the context of the relations between the European states of the first half of the ‘500, in particular the Empire and the Catholic Monarchy of Charles V and of Philip II. The Queen of Poland and Duchess of Bari attempted to carve out a leading role in the international relations of the time, but had to succumb to the wishes of the two Habsburgs, interested in regaining control of the Duchy of Bari and intertwining anti-Turkish alliances with Sigismondo II of Poland, the son of Bona.

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BORDERSCAPES – KRAJOBRAZY GRANIC JAKO NOWA PERSPEKTYWA BADAŃ

Author(s): Irena Szlachcicowa / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 58/2019

The last two decades brought a marked change in the way the border is understood. There was also a revival of discussion about the historical and social context of the border creation and functioning, which resulted in opening new theoretical perspectives. The concept of borderscapes is an attempt to complement and enrich the current way of thinking about borders by emphasizing the role of social and cultural aspects of shaping the space around borders. The inspiration for new ideas was both spatial and relational turn taking place in social sciences at the turn of the century. The aim of this article is to present the original way of conceptualizing and testing boundaries labeled as borderscapes. The perspective of borderscape brings a new view on reality and seeks theoretical and empirical possibilities to capture the complex, multidimensional social space that the borders set. This approach attempts to show the border as a dynamic transnational space of relations, discourses and social practices.

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Bošnjačke familije općine Srebrenica: Antropogeografska istraživanja (II)

Author(s): Alija Suljić / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 12/2020

This paper explores and analyzes the most important anthropogeographic characteristics of the development of the municipality of Srebrenica until the mid-1990s, especially changes in the economic and educational structure of the municipal population. Particular attention was paid to the territorial distribution, that is, the representation of certain Bosniak families in the settlements of the municipality, as well as the number of households and the total number of persons per family. In addition, the basic demographic losses of Bosniak families in the Srebrenica municipality during the aggression against the independent state of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1992-1995, are presented, as well as the massacres of Bosniak men after the occupation of the so-called UN Srebrenica Safe Zone, July 1995. Data on the number of widows and orphaned children as a result of the mass killing of Bosniak men during aggression and genocide were analyzed and presented by families.

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Būstas kaip vartojimo objektas: funkcinės, simbolinės ir investicinės vertės analizė

Author(s): Andrius Segalovičius / Language(s): Lithuanian / Issue: 4/2021

Analysis of housing as an object of consumption rests upon the concept of the value of consumer object. A set of certain features of an object constitute its value and housing is explored by analysing its functional, investment and symbolic value. The results of the empirical study allows us to reasonably state that housing as an object of consumption is recognizable in the population surveyed. The assessment of functional, investment and symbolic value aspects varies with respect to the basic characteristics of housing – location in the city, living area and type of housing. The analysis of housing as an object of consumption revealed growth trends in the relevance of investment value, changes in attitudes towards housing loans and the relevance of owner status in the housing tenure.

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Bycie w terenie / Being out in the land / Estar en el terreno

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Polish,Spanish

You are warmly invited to think about rootedness through a book on the experience of place and being out in the land. We are heading towards the land led not so much by methodological determinations of the land as a category in ethnological research, but by philosophers’ creed where man is a localised being; moreover, what is human is extracted by means of being in a place which binds the orders of spacetime, of landscape, the orders locating us "here and now,” the domestic and rooting orders, but also those questioning our certainty about location, turning home into ruin. Place introduces into the domestic traces of the indescribable, the inscrutable, the indefinite. Place – materially, socially and spiritually capacious – focuses on the land as an area of the Earth, which unveils in man the sensation of enormity, the feeling of blending in and the will to co-create; but the land also becomes an area of our activity and, at the same time, a stage for nature/culture activity; the land is what is open, unveiled in a place, it cannot be ignored, it is extracted from humans during their response to the land, it exposes humans in their being in the land.

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